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<h1 id="introducing-layer-painter">Introducing Layer Painter</h1>
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<p><strong>Layer Painter</strong> is an addon for Blender 2.8x, that allows you to use a Layer-System for creating materials with painting and procedurals. The layers include masks, filters and much more.<br></p>
<h1 id="help">Help</h1>
<p>This documentation page <strong>should cover most</strong> of you problems, so be sure to see if you can find a solution here first.</p>
<p>If you can't find a solution here, <strong>contact me</strong> on one of the following platforms:</p>
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<li>If you bought the addon on Blendermarket you can go <a href="https://blendermarket.com/products/layerpainter">here</a></li>
<li>You can also contact me on <a href="https://twitter.com/joshuaKnauber">Twitter</a></li>
<li>On <a href="https://blenderartists.org/t/bats-material-editing-with-layers-released/1141382">Blenderartists</a> there are also other people that can help you</li>
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<h1 id="discussion">Discussion</h1>
<p>The most discussion happens on <a href="https://blenderartists.org/t/bats-material-editing-with-layers-released/1141382">Blenderartists</a>.
Here you can ask me about features and suggest improvements.</p>
<p>This is also where I share the status of updates and new features.</p>
<h1 id="general-notes">General Notes</h1>
<p>It's important to know, that you <strong>should not edit the node tree</strong>. Layer Painter needs a specific node setup to store the layers.</p>
<p>On another note, please don't treat this addon as an replacement for Substance Painter or a comparable software. It might be able to do the basic things that those can do but they are specialized programs. The main limit for LayerPainter is the viewport which, with Eevee, can get quite slow, especially if you use a lot of procedural textures. The advantage of this addon is that you can do everything right in blender and don't need to switch between multiple packages. For a lot of people the features of this addon should do fine for most materials, but if you're trying to paint complex 8k texture models, be aware that this might not be possible.</p>
              
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